The moisture from those three events mixed with dormant salmonella bacteria in the plant that Childs said likely came from raw peanuts and peanut dust. The Omaha-based company conducted a nearly two-month investigation into the contamination and pledged to ensure that Peter Pan peanut butter is safe when it returns to stores in mid-July. ConAgra recalled all its peanut butter in February after federal health officials linked it to cases of salmonella infection. When making peanut butter,...

He says the measure is crucial to North Dakota's agricultural future because local governments and zoning boards are vulnerable to campaigns by environmental groups that want to ban or limit these operations. The large industrial feedlots that symbolize modern animal agriculture are causing a stink in the state Legislature. Environmental groups such as Sierra Club see CAFOs as an environmental threat because of the large amounts of animal waste that both seeps into ground water and causes...

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The crows awoke on Sunday to an all-but-lifeless landscape in this farming town on the rolling plains, cawing from denuded trees into the silent rubble field below. Friday night's monster tornado, over a mile wide, was so efficient it looked as though a giant hammer had smashed Greensburg, population formerly 1,500. Attics tipped to the street, upstairs bathrooms were open to the sky, roofs were flush with the ground, and cars perched precariously on heaps of debris. For those who had...